Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...individual student might well go along with this. Then, too, it might be well to get more of the English 17 spirit into college courses and mix saws, hammers, and electric bulbs with the discussion of lofty theory. The result might be a few less Babbitts and, hot house lilies and a few more men of the English type; men who can close down a desk at the War Office at three in the afternoon and at five be lecturing on Aesthetics at Oxford...
Journalists who read the American Mercury for October went hot with pride, shame or anger. Editor Henry Louis Mencken had delivered himself of another diatribe on U. S. journalism. Once a newspaper man himself, Editor Mencken now looks down upon his former fellows and their calling with scorn and impatience. His tirades are bitter, egregrious, painfully penetrating. They are the firebrands of a studious but inactive idealist...
...Assembly, said he, was nothing but "words, words, words? which means, in plain English, hot...
Into a Paris garage rolled a roadster, hot from the Dieppe road. The hour was a wee, small one. The garage was full downstairs. The mechanic on duty so informed the driver of the roadster, requested that he steer to the elevator for a ride to the second floor. Out leaped the 'driver. "I," said he, "am Georges Carpentier," bashed the mechanic's nose with his gorgeous right fist. With an untranslatable exclamation, the mechanic dove at his customer's knees, tackled, rolled the Orchid Man of France upon the greasy garage floor, pummelled, beat, ejected...
There were no ill effects from this first contest of the year although the teams went at it hot and heavy for the full twenty minutes. Attention was directed principally toward lineplaying; straight, old fashioned rushes which gave the new tackles, Joss and Butter-worth, and the guard. Eckart and Coone, plenty to think about...